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BEB Transport und Speicher Service GmbH, Hannover Capacity Development NW Region Primary Capacity – Quévy/Blaregnies/Taisnières H Involved TSOs: Fluxys and GRTgaz Working areas and results –Coordinated open seasons for increasing capacity from Belgium to France (39 shippers in Belgium and 37 shippers in France have confirmed their interest) –Stimulation of use of capacities at Belgian side Conditional transit: From IZT to France (already offered) Interruptible transit: from ZPT and Zeebrugge LNG Terminal to France and from s Gravenvoeren to France (as of beginning 2008) –Transparency: Fluxys started publishing its available capacity for primary market Fluxys subscribed capacity on exit points of its network towards France 6

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BEB Transport und Speicher Service GmbH, Hannover Capacity Development NW Region Primary Capacity – Medelsheim / Obergailbach Involved TSOs: E.ON GT, GdF DT and GRTgaz Working areas and results –August 2007: Improvement of transparency GdF DT started publication of hourly flows in August 2007 –September 2007: TSOs finalised study of the current situation which will be the basis for identification of potential improvements Technical capacity Physical flows Offered Products etc. –Next steps: Regulators will start a consultation process to ask the market for its needs and improvement proposals (questionnaire in November 2007) Next IP meeting with shippers is planned for January

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BEB Transport und Speicher Service GmbH, Hannover Capacity Development NW Region Secondary Capacity – Pilot on Secondary Firm C. June 2007: Concentration on secondary firm day-ahead pilot But: Legal barriers were identified –Under German regulation, all secondary trading has take place on one single common platform, once this platform has been established Non-German platform operators could offer combined capacities only in very close co-operation with the German platform, e. g. development of a joint platform –Prices for secondary capacity must not be significantly higher than primary capacity prices In case of auctions tariff risk for sellers Result and next steps –Two pilot projects are scheduled for April 2008 Trac-X and APX announced implementation of platforms Stakeholders and TSOs work on implementation –TSOs: Technical and contractual implementation –EFET: Standard trading agreement 10

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BEB Transport und Speicher Service GmbH, Hannover Capacity Development NW Region Lessons learned and way-forward Lessons learned –Legal bottlenecks have to be identified and solved earlier in the process –Strong involvement of shippers and suppliers is absolutely necessary –Clear and practical goals for all work streams and sub-work streams are necessary Way-forward –TSOs will continue to support the work streams Primary Capacity and Secondary Capacity within the GRI 11